Now growing salaries and increasing standard of living of working americans is a bad thing. Typical right-wing mentality, still thinking slavery, indentured servitude, contaminated environment, horrendous working conditions and child labor are good for the economy. LOL, they flee from Socialism to China, India? Never heard anything more stupid in my life.
Oh, so the dems forced the law abiding repubs to break the law and hire illegals.... Bwaaahaaahaaaha.......
The Mexican welfare system is called "THE RIVER PLAN". The Mexican government has a rather simple el-neato plan for welfare programs, healthcare, social security, pension plan. The Mexican gov uses "THE RIVER PLAN" to solve all those problems, they ship the problems across the Rio Grande river to you and me. American gov (which we all know is a front for big business) wants these social deserters to come into the USA so labor costs can be held in check and lowered from a steady inflow of low wage workers. The mantra from American business is "Americans do not want these jobs, thats total and complete BS propaganda. Any job will be sought out if indeed the wages were decent and not lowered to the cellars from scab workers. No bad reflection personally towards the foreign workers as persons, they have a well intentioned motivation to rid themselves of slave labor wages in a country that is as corrupt as we are headed. The problems these incoming workers cause aside from the obvious costs to our own social systems etc is they hurt others as they try to improve themselves. Business loves workers that they have under their thumb. Such a shame for us all. The middle class in America is being decimated as we import scab workers and export good jobs, again for lower labor costs. The mexican gov has been laughing about this for years. "Gringo's are so stupid!!!"
The point is , you're comparing apples and oranges.... The standards for people and goods SHOULD be different...
Growing salaries based on productivity is a good thing. But growing salaries based on government mandates is something else. The government can force companies to pay their employees higher wages, health care, etc. Fine. But donât whine when the private sector hires illegal aliens and outsource its employment to India and China. Itâs stupid to you because you have no clue what has been going on the last 10 years. The Chinese government is officially Communist, but they are practicing Capitalism in almost everything they do. Berkeley has more communists than all of China. Why do you think the worldâs best companies are scrambling to open factories in China and hire the local people there? China offers both unskilled and skilled labor on the cheap. It costs less to do business in China. Not a ridiculously litigious society. On top of all this, there is a brain-drain going on. More Americans are going to Chinese business schools because that is where all the action is. Iâm not saying I like any of this, by the way. Iâm just pointing out the consequences. If you are going to have a society that penalizes productivity and rewards the unskilled, be prepared for the consequencesâ¦
Both parties take the blame for not enforcing the law, of course. But since the Dems are now trying to hide themselves behind protectionism and security issues, I like to remind people that this party will always be the biggest whore when it comes to the âHispanic Vote,â and it will run the country into the ground by taxing the productive to reward the non-productive.
Republicans have controlled congress for nearly a decade, the presidency for over 4 years....and you, among other sanctimonious republicans continue to blame the dems. The illegals are here because the republican party wanted them here. The refusal by republicans to take responsibility for their own crimes is typical, very typical.... NAFTA, which is behind a lot of the problems we are having, was pushed through because of republican support. "That is what Democrats did in 1993, when most House Democrats opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement. President Bill Clinton backed NAFTA, and leaders of the Democratic-controlled House allowed it to come to a vote. The trade pact passed because of heavy GOP support, with 102 Democrats voting for it and 156 voting against. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the House GOP leader at the time, declared: "This is a vote for history, larger than politics . . . larger than personal ego."
Sulong, Why did you assume that there were local residents to do the work? When these people started working, more than 50% of the local residents were out of town. Most of the locals like myself who stayed back were working 12 hour shifts or more. By the way, I support giving legal papers to people who are willing to work.
A 100% of your precious illegals were out of town during the cane. If you could bring those in afterwards, why not bring back the local residents?
In Z's stupefied, socialistic stupor, he's determined to outdo the 9/11 conspiracy nuts. Now we're to believe that ailing GM has an auto plant hidden beneath the desert floor employing illegals at wages a fifth of those offered in Flint. Or those Mexicans you see trimming hedges, cleaning toilets, and bussing tables in the cafeteria at Intel, Citibank, and IBM are the tools of greed used by big business. What the hell kind of work do you think these people do? Illegals dominate in industries like landscaping, house cleaning, restaurant services, farming, and construction. Tradermaji was speaking about the lack of workers in New Orleans to rebuild after Katrina. I have no doubts. I've been in SoFla for several months and it's very difficult to find laborers here in the Wilma aftermath. My neighbor installs rain gutters. Even with ten workers he's backlogged through August. Get this through your heads. There's a shortage of low skilled low wage workers among Americans. Period! If you all are so delusional that you belive an unemployed software developer would take a job cleaning fish at a supermarket if only the pay were better than you're on drugs. Big business has NOTHING TO DO with immigration policy. As if Exxon or Haliburton or J.P. Morgan are dependant upon cheap labor. Get a life.